Harris says it not only offended the male-dominated country-music scene, but also the public at large. "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" was banned on the NBC radio network and on the Grand Ole Opry. "A whole generation of women who probably didn't know that they were not represented on the airways." "All of the sudden, she spoke to a whole psyche," Harris says. She stepped into the studio and recorded a song that in many ways captured the tensions of the time. In 1952, Wells was a 33-year-old housewife and mother. "You know, it's OK for a man to go around and cheat and hang out in the bars and expect a little woman to be home with a hot meal," country singer Emmylou Harris says. People would ask, "Why are we suffering this moral decay?" At the time, many believed it was because women weren't in the home.
There was more delinquency and more smoking. There were more divorces in the post-war era than the United States had ever seen. "Honky Tonk Angels" referred to the women who hung around honky-tonks - dance-hall girls who'd dance with you for a drink and who lived that kind of "wild side of life." The Library of Congress recently added the song to the National Recording Registry. Miller's "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" became a controversial hit for then-budding country singer Kitty Wells. Without a female voice, it was natural that an answer song was in order, and J.D. In 1952, Hank Thompson's "The Wild Side of Life" addressed wild women and finding women on the wild side of life. Kitty Wells' recording of "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" was banned on the NBC radio network and on the Grand Ole Opry.
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